Conrad The Band

Conrad is a new studio project by singer-songwriter Matthew Shaw and producer Nick Andre. The band began as an experiment to make music fun again for the jaded music veterans. After years of touring and contributing to other peoples projects, the two went back to their home studio to create a record all their own. They started by throwing all rules and pervious experience out the window and combining Nick Andre’s hip-hop influenced electro-indie-rock production with the oddly poetic, druggy, and hook-laden vocals of Matthew Shaw. The two childhood friends spent their teenage
years in sunny Bakersfield, CA going to punk shows, drinking beer in dirt fields, skateboarding, and listening to everything from The Ramones to Mobb Deep. These songs are inspired from those care free, convoluted and rebellious times. Some of the lyrics even draw from crazy and unbelievable actual events from those years. The result is a sound reminiscent of The
Flaming Lips, Ariel Pink, Lou Reed, and The Clash, yet inarguably original.